animation in version 7.0 looks bad
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- Subject: [mg97952] animation in version 7.0 looks bad
- From: Dan Dubin <ddubin at ucsd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:23:31 -0500 (EST)
Folks -- maybe its just my old mac ( a G4 967 MHz) but animations
just don't look very good when using Animate or ListAnimate in
Mathematica Version 7.0.1. This is particularly true if the plots in
the animation are at all complicated. The animations run rather
slowly and look jumpy. It works better if I use the old method of
grouping a series of plots and then doing apple-Y . An example is
given below -- two different modes of animation, one using ListAnmate
and the other producing the same plots that must then be animated "by
hand" using "Animate Selected Graphics". On my machine the second
method looks much smoother and also runs faster.
How do I get Animate and/or ListAnimate to give
better-looking output (besides going out and buying a new machine)?
\[Psi][x_, t_] = Exp[-(x - t)^2/(2 (1 + t))]/Sqrt[1 + t];
ListAnimate[
Table[Plot[\[Psi][x, t], {x, -2, 10}, AxesLabel -> {"x", " "},
Ticks -> False,
PlotLabel ->
"t = " <>
ToString[t], PlotRange -> {0, 1}], {t, 0., 10, 1}],
DisplayAllSteps -> True, AnimationRate -> 5];
Do[Print[
Plot[\[Psi][x, t], {x, -2, 10}, AxesLabel -> {"x", " "},
Ticks -> False,
PlotLabel ->
"t = " <>
ToString[t], PlotRange -> {0, 1}]], {t, 0., 10, 1}]
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